Project of the Day and Giveaway: Mini Butterfly Crayon Canvases

All month long we’ve been teaming up with talented designers and top craft companies to bring you new crafts and giveaways. Sadly, as National Craft Month comes to a close, there are only two more special blog posts like today’s Project of the Day. Then we return to our regular scheduled programming – which will still deliver giveaways, project ideas, news and more! But let’s live in the present, shall we? Today’s Project of the Day will cheer us right up! You’re going to love the Mini Butterfly Crayon Canvases from Consumer Crafts we’re about to share with you. It’s a fun, easy project that even the kids can get in on. Celebrate spring with this bright colored craft!

Once you’ve read about our Project of the Day, scroll to the bottom of this post and answer the question in blue. By simply leaving a comment in the comments section, you’ll be entered to win today’s giveaway.

Mini Butterfly Crayon Canvases

Nothing says spring like butterflies and bright colors! Celebrate the season with the Mini Butterfly Crayon Canvases. This craft is so simple, you can even let the kids help. Once they’re completed, they’re perfect to hang on the wall of a child’s bedroom or really anywhere in your home. Follow these simple steps and you’ll love the results. It’s a cheerful craft you can make yourself.

Supplies:

Three (3) Studio 71 3×3 inch Mini Canvases (white) (These come in groups of three when you order them at ConsumerCrafts.)

Victoria Lynn White Pearl Floral Spray

Queen & Co. Bling Pearls (white)

Core’dinations Cardstock (white)

Glue Dots Craft Adhesive

Studio 71 Wooden Mini Easel (optional)

24 Count Crayola Crayons

EK Success Large Butterfly Punch

Multi-Purpose Heat Tool

Scissors

Instructions:

The first thing you need to decide is your color palette. I chose the whole rainbow! I split the spectrum into three sections: Red/Orange, Yellow/Green, and Blue/Purple. I found it worked well to use 3-4 colors per canvas to get a good variety of color.

Peel back and discard the paper on the crayons you wish to use.

Take off and discard the plastic coverings on your canvases.

Place a piece of scrap paper underneath your canvas, to keep your work space clean.

Here we go!

Hold your heat gun over the top of the tip of your crayon, and allow it to start to melt.

Let the drips from the crayon cover the canvas as desired.

Keep in mind, the heat from the heat gun will keep the crayon on the canvas liquid, and the drops on the canvas will spread.

Add additional colors as desired.

This is where it starts to get fun!

Keep adding color, and let the colors mix and swirl.

While the crayons are still molten on the canvas, you can tilt the canvas, and allow the crayons to mix and drip. I let mine drip right off the side of the canvas!

Look how cool the texture of the canvas is with the melted crayons!

Let the canvas dry, and the crayons harden.

Then you can add color splatters to the canvas.

Heat the crayon away from the finished canvas. This will keep the color already on the canvas from re-melting.

When the crayon starts dripping, hold the dripping crayon over the canvas, tap it, and allow it to splatter!

Are you having fun yet?

Repeat with your other canvases, and your selected colors.

Let the canvases dry. It doesn’t take long.

Using white Core’dinations cardstock, and a large butterfly punch, punch two butterflies per canvas.

Trim the antennas from the butterflies.

(I would like to thank my eight year old daughter Mikayla, for assisting me. She was my photographer, and the hand-model in the next photo.)

(We both clearly need manicures!)

Take a glue dot, and stretch it out to cover the body of the (bottom) butterfly.

(Designer note: make sure your working area is free from stray crayon residue, or you will be punching a bunch of extra white butterflies to replace the ones that inadvertently got colored while you worked on them. Just saying.)

Trim two strands of the pearl sprays from the bunch, and place them in the (stretched) glue dot.

With your second (top) butterfly, bend the wings upwards at the body section, and adhere it to the bottom butterfly, using the stretched glue dot.

Add a strip of adhesive Bling pearls down the center of the butterfly body.

You can choose to display your creative, artistic, FABULOUS canvases on easels:

Or on the wall:

Either way, you might have to sign the bottoms of those canvases, because people aren’t going to believe you actually made them yourself!

Like I mentioned before, now that you’ve seen our awesome Project of the Day, we’d like to offer you a stellar prize to go along with it! All you have to do is answer the question below and you’ll be entered to win:

Included in this gift basket is:

Core’dinations Tim Holtz & Ranger Adirondack Paper Pack Collection

Opposites Attract Cricut font cartridge

40 sheets of Core’dinations Cut & Emboss Series cardstock

Hearts/love scrapbook

2 packs of Darice paper crafting greeting cards and envelopes

100 sheets of Darice 4.5in x 6.5in cardstock in assorted colors

100 piece pack of jumbo cardstock shapes

Pack of large paper crafting scraps

American Crafts Thickers chip board stickers

4 Darice embossing folders

Tape runner

Contest Rules:

Contest open to US and Canada residents 18+

One comment/entry per person.

Contest closes March 30, 2012 at 11:59p CST.

Please answer the question below in order to be entered.

Winners will be posted on this blog and notified by email

What have you enjoyed most about National Craft Month? Have you picked up on any new craft tips? Did you create anything new from the projects you’ve seen in our Project of the Day posts?

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Comments

I’ve enjoyed all the new and inspiring ideas that have been shared during National Craft Month most. I’ve learned of a lot of blogs that I’ve never seen before, with tons of tips I’m sure. I’ve only been able to skim through some so far but can’t wait to start visiting regularly and get started making some of the projects. I’ve not had much time this month to work on crafts, but I have definitely found lots to try. Thanks for providing such great craft info to celebrate National Craft Month!

this project is awesome!!! i am re-doing my bedroom in purple with butterfly theme….this is gonna be a GREAT thing to make for wall decor for my new bedroom! thank you soooooo much for this great idea!!!

I have never really spent that much time going to different sites, till now. I love those butterfly canvases and even though they were more for a young girls room, I would love them above my bed to replace the old picture I have there. My crafting has ben limited since I retired. This wil gives me a reason to start again.

Love the Give-a-ways and also the ideas . I made the Butterfly canvases on a larger canvas added paper flowers and grass prints soo pretty a little sign of spring to come… we currently still have snow on the ground in Michigan

I craft all the time. Even here at work I have been asked to make thing up for special sales. Doing 2d type by adding layers of heavy colored paper is one of my best eye catchers.
My Grands and I love to recycle and re direct lots of things. From broken crayons to worn out shoes we use them for something very important. Shoes make wonderful flower pots. Adds some interest to the stairs going into the house. I have even used them (old shoes) to hold things in my garden tool shed.
Reading the daily tips and suggestions just adds more ideas that I can use for all kinds of fun projects.

I think it was really cool how you melted the crayon to make the cool design and the beads on butterfly just add to the butterfly to give it color. I also learned some different ways to make tags and the 6 different ways to do your bottom papers.would love the giveaway but more than that I am learning so many new ways of doing scrapbooking and I will use these in my scrapbooking projects thank-you so much

What I like most about National Craft Month is I realized that some craft items look hard to do and by seeing step by step pictures, you realize that they really are simple. I haven’t make anything yet because I try to have two to three craft projects going at the same time and I am at my limit now. If it’s more than that, sometimes the projects do not get completed.

Such a cute craft! I love the butterflies, I think I may try to apply the crayon to them and place clips on the back so I can apply them to gifts! They may also look cute on some summer flower displays! I am loveing ALL your ideas!

I have loved seeing all the new ideas in all the crafting mediums. I want to try some of these ideas, especially today’s butterfly canvases – I have a spot where they would look great, done in shades of blues like the Blue Morpho butterfly.

I am enjoying all the different crafts. I am always looking for something new to do and there are just so many great ideas here that I want to do everything at once. Thankfully I have 2 great craft stores right near me.

The best thing about crafting and seeing the daily craft ideas is that is gives me spin off ideas to create my own works of art, either using the same concept, or just giving me a completely new idea! I love working with all kinds of media, from hand sewing with needles and thread to making purses, wallets and flowers on the end of pens with duct tape, to beading jewelry and tying hemp or scrap booking, I like to try it all and see if I can’t make something unique and fun that is also functional and practical. =)

my daughter saw this and wants to make them and all the other projects you have.
she’s home schooled and loves doing things with her hands I hope I win something for
her so that I can give it to her as a surprise!

National Craft Month got me thinking crafting again, I reorganized my supplies, counted my knitting needles and crochet hooks, and found so many new patterns for a rainy day! I’m excited to get back to crocheting afghans and knitting socks!

I have enjoyed all the new crafts and I am in the process of incorporating many of them into my classroom activities. I do have to modify some since the children I work with range in age from one year to five years. I can’t wait to read and to more!

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